iFIFI! - Apple's Paris store hit by New Year's Eve raid

The new electronic jewels of the 21st Century. No need for an intricately planned break-in from above using an umbrella to catch the debris, when, in Paris today, you can just walk-in the security entrance.  m/r

Apple's Paris store hit by New Year's Eve raid - Telegraph

By Devorah Lauter, Paris  GMT 01 Jan 2013

The Apple shop in Paris's Opera district was robbed by armed, masked men on New Year's Eve, under the noses of riot police patrolling the nearby Champs Elysées.

Reports claimed the thieves, armed with handguns, made off with as much as one million euros (£780,000) worth of products, although police would not confirm the total, noting that the store's director was still processing the lost inventory.

Masked men forced their way into a back entrance around 9pm, three hours after the store closed, as a janitor was leaving. The janitor was "lightly injured" in the process.

Rather than snatching the iPhones, iPads and Macs on display, the thieves went straight for boxes of stocked material. Accomplices waited in a nearby, parked truck, in which the goods were loaded, and a successful getaway was made around 9:40pm. Four or five men are believed to be have been involved with the robbery.

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